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Are your glasses unknowingly revealing your personal life? When you change your dress, go to the bath or get intimate with your partner in bed, are all those scenes reaching the computer of a stranger across seven seas and thirteen rivers? Recently, such explosive information has emerged in a report. Video footage collected by Meta AI smart glasses is now in the hands of tech workers in Kenya. This is known in the report.

A joint report by Swedish newspapers Gutenbergs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet claims footage of Ray-Ban smart glasses made by Mater is being sent to workers at a contractor company called ‘Sama’ in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. These staff basically work as ‘data annotators’. Their job is to watch and label these videos to further improve the artificial intelligence or AI model.

According to the report, the employees in Kenya were able to see the most private moments of the customers’ personal lives. One worker said they were seeing everything from drinking tea in the living room to naked bodies in the bedroom. Even the scene of going to the toilet or the scene of intercourse does not escape their attention. In many cases, customers’ bank card details are also clearly visible in the footage. “We see everything. I don’t think users know that their private moments are being recorded. If they knew, they probably wouldn’t have done it,” said one worker, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Meta, however, has been claiming that these glasses are designed with the user’s privacy in mind. But their privacy policy vaguely states that user conversations or interactions with AI may be reviewed by humans.

According to technology experts, this intrusion into human privacy in the name of training artificial intelligence is alarming. Kenyan workers said they were forced to watch such scenes for fear of losing their jobs. If you open your mouth, you are afraid of going to work. By 2025, Meta has sold around 7 million of these smart glasses. Behind this victory of technology, the question of how secure the personal life of the common man is is now becoming big. Are your ‘smart’ glasses becoming your privacy’s biggest enemy? World-technology is looking for answers.